Title:

Facing pages [290-291]

Date:

18641016-18641017

Ten months longer to serve from this day. <We live in deeds, not years: in thoughts, not breaths: In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most live who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. And he whose heart beats quickest, lives the longest; Lives in one hour more than in years do some whose fat blood sleeps as it slips along their veins.>

English

Collection:

Henry O. Nightingale diaries